On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, David Dorward wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 12:38:06PM +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, David Dorward wrote:
> > > CSS doesn't currently provide a way to implement opacity,
> >
> > Actually, it does:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#transparency
>
> Which I didn't mention since it is not yet a recommendation
It's in CR. That's as far as it can get along the W3C track until it gets
a decent test suite and two compliant implementations. (It's as far as
CSS1, CSS2, CSS2.1, HTML4, etc, have reached.)
> nor does it have wide support among user agents (and the sole user agent
> being targeted by the non-standard code is not among those user agents
> which do support it.)
It's supported by Mozilla and Safari, I believe.
You didn't say "IE doesn't provide a standard way of doing it", you said
"CSS doesn't currently provide a way to implement opacity". That's untrue,
and is all I was correcting.
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